Milica Stojanovic
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- millitsa@ece.northeastern.edu
- 413 Dana Research Center
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
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Office
- 617.373.5112
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Research Focus
Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing
About
Milica Stojanovic is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. She is also a permanent Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and was a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is affiliated with the AUV Laboratory.
Professor Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988 (summa cum laude), and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, in 1991 and 1993. Upon graduation, she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and subsequently a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholarship. Professor Stojanovic spent a considerable part of her research career as a Principal Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also served as an Associate Director for Research at the MIT Sea Grant College Program. A Distinguished Visitor Award took her to the University of Padova, Italy, where she taught for a semester during 2006. In 2008, Professor Stojanovic joined the faculty of Northeastern University.
Professor Stojanovic’s research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to underwater acoustic systems. Her teaching career spans over twenty years, with traditional as well as newly-developed courses in these areas. She has made pioneering contributions to underwater acoustic communications, and her work has been widely cited.
Professor Stojanovic is an IEEE Fellow (2010), for contributions to underwater acoustic communications, a recipient of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Distinguished Technical Achievement Award (2015), IEEE WICE Outstanding Achievement Award (2019), and the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Distinguished Lecturer (2018). She is listed among the World’s top 2% according to Stanford University (the first among Northeastern faculty performing research in the area of Networking & Telecommunications). In 2020, students of the ECE Department at Northeastern University selected her as the Eta Kappa Nu Professor of the Year. Professor Stojanovic is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, and serves on the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. She is the Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Technical Committee for Underwater Communication, Navigation and Positioning. Her past editorial positions include those with the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and the IEEE Communication Letters.
Education
- Ph.D. (EE) 1993, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- M.S. (EE) 1991, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- B.S. (Dipl.Ing. EE) 1988, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Honors & Awards
- Distinguished Technical Achievement Award and Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Ocean Engineering Society
- IEEE Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Professional Affiliations
- Acoustical Society of America
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow
Research Overview
Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing
Selected Research Projects
- Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments
- – co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Active Communication, Sensing and Control in Actuated Underwater Sensing Networks
- – Principal Investigator, Office of Naval Research
- Development of a Software-Defined Networking Testbed for the Internet of Underwater Things
- – Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Alimadadi, Mohammadreza, Stojanovic, Milica, Closas, Pau (2020). Object Tracking in Random Access Networks: A Large-Scale Design. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7(10),9784-9792. 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2988411
- Jing, Liwen, Wang, Mengdan, Lu, Yu, Stojanovic, Milica, Murch, Ross (2020). Differential orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication in water pipeline channels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148(2),EL130-EL134. 10.1121/10.0001677
- Ahmed, Rameez, Stojanovic, Milica (2019). Grouped Packet Coding: A Method for Reliable Communication Over Fading Channels With Long Delays. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 44(4),1253-1263. 10.1109/JOE.2018.2855498
- Duman, Tolga M., Stojanovic, Milica (2019). Information Rates of Energy Harvesting Communications with Intersymbol Interference. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(12),2164-2167. 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2945766
- Song, Aijun, Stojanovic, Milica, Chitre, Mandar (2019). Editorial Underwater Acoustic Communications: Where We Stand and What Is Next?. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 44(1),1-6. 10.1109/JOE.2018.2883872
- Tadayon, Amir, Stojanovic, Milica (2019). Iterative Sparse Channel Estimation and Spatial Correlation Learning for Multichannel Acoustic OFDM Systems. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 44(4),820-836. 10.1109/JOE.2019.2932662
- Tadayon, Amir, Stojanovic, Milica (2019). Low-Complexity Superresolution Frequency Offset Estimation for High Data Rate Acoustic OFDM Systems. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 44(4),932-942. 10.1109/JOE.2018.2869657
- Tomlinson, William J., Banou, Stella, Yu, Christopher, Stojanovic, Milica, Chowdhury, Kaushik R. (2019). Comprehensive Survey of Galvanic Coupling and Alternative Intra-body Communication Technologies. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE, 21(2),1145-1164. 10.1109/COMST.2018.2879643
- R. Ahmed, M. Stojanovic, Grouped Packet Coding: A Method for Reliable Communication Over Fading Channels With Long Delays, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 99, 2018, 1-11
- A. Tadayon, M. Stojanovic, Low-Complexity Super-Resolution Frequency Offset Estimation for High Data Rate Acoustic OFDM Systems, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2018, 1-11
- R. Ahmed, M. Stojanovic, Joint Power and Rate Control for Packet Coding Over Fading Channels, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 42(3), 2016, 697-710
- Y. Aval, S.K. Wilson, M. Stojanovic, Capacity of Acoustic Channels and Practical Power-Allocation Strategies, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Special Issue on Underwater Communications, 40(4), 2015, 785-795
- Y. Aval, M. Stojanovic, Differentially Coherent Multichannel Detection of Acoustic OFDM Signals, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 40(2), 2015, 251-268
- P. Qarabaqi, M. Stojanovic, Statistical Characterization and Computationally Efficient Modeling of a Class of Underwater Acoustic Channels, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Special Issue on Underwater Communications, 38(4), 2013, 701-717

Sep 28, 2023
Developing a Robotic Aquaculture System
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Joseph Ayers, MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE Chair Jerome Hajjar, ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic, and CEE/MES Associate Professor Amy Mueller were awarded a patent for “Robotic aquaculture system and methods.”

May 24, 2023
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes […]

Nov 04, 2019
Stojanovic Awarded IEEE WICE Outstanding Achievement Award
ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic was awarded the 2019 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Outstanding Achievement Award for having done outstanding technical work in the broad field of communications engineering, and achieved a high degree of visibility in the field.

Apr 29, 2019
Faculty and Staff Awards 2019
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2018-2019 academic school year. See Photo Gallery Faculty Fellow Matthew Eckelman, CEE Yongmin Liu, MIE Outstanding Teacher of First Year Engineering Students Joseph Depasquale, Chemistry Brian O’Connell, FYE Sumi Seo, Mathematics Matthew Webber, […]

Sep 19, 2017
ECE Team to Develop Testbed for Underwater Communication
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia will lead a three-year $1.57M NSF grant with Associate Professors Stefano Basagni, Matteo Rinaldi, and Professor Milica Stojanovic for the “Development of a Software-Defined Networking Testbed for the Internet of Underwater Things”.

Dec 07, 2015
Professor Milica Stojanovic Named 2015 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Awardee
ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic has been awarded the 2015 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society's Distinguished Technical Achievement Award.
Aug 27, 2014
Building Underwater Networks
ECE associate professors Stefano Basagni, Yunsi Fei, & professor Milica Stojanovic were awarded a $400K NSF grant to develop a Northeastern University Marine Observatory NETwork (NU MONET).

Jul 31, 2012
Creating Underwater Networks
ECE professor Milica Stojanovic has been awarded an $120K NSF grant to develop a mobile underwater communications network for use in areas like environmental monitoring, security, and aquaculture. Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in […]
Mar 10, 2011
Congratulations COE Award Winners
Congratulations to the recipients of this year's College of Engineering Faculty and Staff awards.